Fiction

Hard Life
Flann O'Brien
An effervescently brilliant novel by the great Irish master of invention, Flann O'Brien.

Mysteries
Knut Hamsun
A wild masterpiece by a Nobel prize winner championed by influential writers such as Karl Ove Knausgaard and Doris Lessing

Tales of Love and Loss
Knut Hamsun
With twenty stories ranging over every human emotion and situation, Tales of Love and Loss collects many of Hamsun's short stories translated int…

The Ring is Closed
Knut Hamsun
THE FIRST UK EDITION OF HAMSUN'S LAST GREAT NOVEL;A NEW TRANSLATION BY ROBERT FERGUSON, HAMSUN'S BIOGRAPHER

Ghost Stories: The best of The Daily Telegraph's ghost story competition
Lorna Bradbury
Six ghost stories to make your spine tingle and your mind race

The Magic Christian
Terry Southern
A satire of the tackier underbelly of the American dream, which became a cult film starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr.

The Horn
John Clellon Holmes
One of the best jazz novels ever written, by John Clellon Holmes, a figure in the Beat literary movement of the mid 20th century.

Pieces of Modesty
Peter O'Donnell
The first collection of pulse-pounding short stories featuring the iconic heroine Modesty Blaise

Desperadoes
Ron Hansen
Reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy, Desperadoes is the first novel by the author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford, now a majo…

Four Stories
Alan Bennett
Here are Alan Bennett's four hugely admired, triumphantly reviewed and bestselling stories, brought together in one book for the first time.

A Taste for Death
Peter O'Donnell
In the fourth instalment of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin must save a young woman from the criminal underworld

The Cobra Trap
Peter O'Donnell
The final collection of pulse-pounding short stories featuring the iconic heroine Modesty Blaise

Gilgamesh
Stephen Mitchell
Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh is a wonderful version. It is as eloquent and nuanced as his translations of Rilke. This is certainly the best that…

Dead Man's Handle
Peter O'Donnell
In the eleventh instalment of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin are pitted against one another in a terrifying fight to…

Modesty Blaise
Peter O'Donnell
In the first of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin must foil a multi million pound diamond heist

Dragon's Claw
Peter O'Donnell
In the ninth instalment of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin must solve a series of baffling art world murders

I, Lucifer
Peter O'Donnell
In the third instalment of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin must discover the truth behind a series of mysterious and…

Last Day in Limbo
Peter O'Donnell
In the eighth instalment of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin must travel to the jungles of South America to face their…

Sabre-Tooth
Peter O'Donnell
In the second of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin must travel to Kuwait to battle an army of ruthless mercenaries

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
Delmore Schwartz
Eight short stories by American poet and short story writer Delmore Schwartz, proclaimed a masterpiece by Vladimir Nabokov and William Barrett, and a…